Multiple popular online services were hit by outages on Thursday afternoon, including Spotify, Discord, Google and Amazon Web Services, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks service disruptions across the web.

Google's cloud services were down for a period of time on Thursday, along with a number of other cloud offerings. "We are experiencing service issues with multiple GCP products," a status page from Google showed,

The problems swept across major services and websites for an uncomfortable stretch on Thursday before recovery began kicking in.